Sébastien Philippe

Jun 14, 2024 | defenseone.com | Sébastien Philippe |Sharon Weiner

The Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program is so massively over budget and behind schedule that it must be bailed out by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before July 9 or face termination. In either case, U.S. nuclear forces would remain sufficient to deter any adversary, including Russia and China, from a nuclear strike. Termination of Sentinel, however, would make the country much safer while saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.

Dec 20, 2023 | espanol.news | Amanda Montañez |Sébastien Philippe

Algunas de nuestras historias favoritas de este año se cuentan mejor visualmenteEste año ha estado lleno de historias científicas fascinantes, y mis colegas y yo en el Científico americano El equipo de gráficos ha estado encantado de ayudar a contar muchos de ellos a través de cuadros, ilustraciones, mapas y diagramas.

Nov 17, 2023 | nuclear-news.net | Sébastien Philippe |Christina MacPherson

Who Would Take the Brunt of an Attack on U.S. Nuclear Missile Silos? These fallout maps (on original) show the toll of a potential nuclear attack on missile silos in the U.S. heartlandScientific American BY SÉBASTIEN PHILIPPE 1 Dec 2023, [on original – excellent maps , charts, and illustrations] This article is part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal.

Nov 14, 2023 | scientificamerican.com | Sébastien Philippe

This article is part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal. Last March the U.S. Air Force released a two-volume, 3,000-plus-page report detailing the environmental impact of its plans to replace all 400 “Minuteman” land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with new “Sentinel” missiles by the mid-2030s.